[vox-tech] Shell Scripting Question: Getting a directory name from a 'find' result

[Richard Crawford]

Mike Simons said:

> find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | sed 's/\/\([^\/]*\)$/ \1/' |
>   while read dir file; do
>     echo "file = $file, directory = $dir"
>   done

Thanks, that did the trick.


>   The more complex you make things the more you should look into doing
> this with perl.

My preference as well, but not really workable under the circumstances.

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